Impact of Family History and Decision Support on High-risk Cancer Screening
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer
In brief
Family health history can help identify patients at higher than average risk for disease. There is no standardized system for collecting and updating family health history, using this information to determine a patient's disease risk level, and providing screening recommendations to patients and providers. Patients will enter their family health history into MeTree, a family history software program. The program will produce screening recommendations tailored to the patient's family health history. The investigators will examine whether this process increases physician referrals for, and patient uptake of, guideline-recommended screening for colorectal cancer.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02247336
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 505
- Starts
- 2017-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2020-07-13
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-07-27
Who can join
Age: 40 and older, up to 64. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Primary care provider inclusion criteria:
- primary care physician,
- physician assistant, or nurse practitioner;
- at least one half-day of primary care clinic per week.
- Patient inclusion criteria:
- assigned to an enrolled PCP;
- English as preferred language;
- no plans to relocate or leave the VA system in the next 12 months;
- at least one primary care appointment in the 18 months prior to enrollment;
- upcoming PCP appointment with assigned PCP;
- aged 40-64 years; no previous history of colorectal cancer or adenomatous polyps or inflammatory bowel disease;
- no endoscopy within previous 3 years; some knowledge of family health history
You may not qualify if…
- n/a (contained within inclusion criteria)
Where it is running
- Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC — Durham, North Carolina, United States
- William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI — Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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